A PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE POWDER-BLUE-GROUND BALUSTER VASES AND COVERS Kangxi Each exterior with four lobed oval vertical panels painted variously with landscapes, scholar's objects, flowering shrubs, and archaistic vessels in iron red, ochre and green enamel, all boldly reserved on a rich blue powdered ground gilt with floral designs, the cover similarly decorated in gilt below with a large knop. 25.5cm (10in) high. (4). Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 清康熙 灑藍地開光五彩山水花鳥博古圖蓋瓶一對 Provenance: R.H.R. Palmer (1898-1970), and thence by descent Bonhams Knightsbridge, 4 March 2009, lot 82 來源：R.H.R. Palmer（1898-1970）舊藏，並由後人保存 邦瀚斯騎士橋，2009年3月4日，拍品編號82 For a similar powder-blue-ground vase, Kangxi, see Lu Zhangshen, Passion for Porcelain: Masterpieces of Ceramics from the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, Beijing, 2012, p.271, fig.1; see also a related pair of powder blue vases and covers, Kangxi, illustrated by D.S.Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader: The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain illustrated from the Hodroff Collection, London, 1994, no.283. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com